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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Joseph Heller?
(a) Buster Keaton.
(b) Rudolph Valentino.
(c) Stan Laurel.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

2. At which of the following English schools did Rushdie board?
(a) Eton College.
(b) Wycliffe School.
(c) Rugby School.
(d) Oakham School.

3. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
(a) Brihat Katha.
(b) Katha Sarit Sagara.
(c) Artha Shastra.
(d) Mudra Raksasha.

4. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) Buster Keaton.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Rudolph Valentino.
(d) Stan Laurel.

5. Which of the following does Rushdie note having written for his son?
(a) The Satanic Verses.
(b) The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
(c) Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
(d) Grimus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following books does Rushdie reference?

2. To which of the following does Rushdie compare himself?

3. To which of the following is the anthology dedicated?

4. Of which of the following was Heraclitus a prince?

5. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rushdie assert that visitors to New York City feel they know it when they arrive there?

2. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?

3. What does Heraclitus’s fragment 121 say?

4. What does Rushdie note struck him most on his first reading of Portnoy’s Complaint?

5. To what does the “Lakshman rekha” refer?

6. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?

7. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?

8. Why do the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare occur on the same date but not the same day?

9. What is the central conceit of Now It Can Be Told?

10. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?

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